WATCH: Footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing

Saturday marks the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The cosmos is providing a full moon, and there are plenty of other events to honor the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Read more: bit.ly/46eLjjj
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[@OllieCoaster]

Funny how we went to the moon before suitcases with wheels were invented

[@cjpv1972]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@j.g.goedtke4086]

We got a moon landing before GTA 6

[@newcinema4931]

we got the entire history of humanity before gta 6 bro😭

[@Palbizu]

@marksneddonok but who asked

[@MarcSpctr]

​@marksneddon we got a GTA6 meme hater before GTA6

[@j.g.goedtke4086]

Ha, yeah...well I can't say that I play it, but one of the sound designers did come out to our house and record sound effects for GTA 6 a few months ago, so I know they're working on it.

[@mrmr-qx4jq]

​@j.g.goedtke4086 if u don't play it why copy and paste ur comment? It's already unoriginal 😢

[@ronaldredmond3308]

I was 7 years old when this happened. I remember watching it on TV, black and white of course because color TVs were new and expensive at the time. An event that I will always remember.

[@delanomajors3554]

The greatest fictional movie of all time. They won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture that year 👀

[@dansv1]

Midnight Cowboy.

[@PraveenSrJ01]

It has been 55 years today but I wasn’t alive on July 20, 1969 but my elderly parents were teenagers

[@brianhess9083]

Did anyone else think about the original MTV music when the launch part of this video was on?

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

'A Man On the Moon' by Andrew Chaikin is s great book about Apollo 11, as well as the other Apollo moon landings. Awesome read.

[@ServantMaximus]

Is it found in the fantasy section?

[@erac5855]

@@ServantMaximus nonfiction, science, or history, actually. The conspiracies for wackos books are in the fantasy section.

[@Abhi-2002-lvu]

Why couldn't anyone go back to the moon? Even after 55 years

[@wimkuijpers1342]

Kennedy had promised at the time that the US would land man on man within a decade and return safely. Money was not a problem then. Converted to today, the costs were 217 billion dollars.

[@PraveenSrJ01]

55 years to the day which is a wisp of sand on cosmic time

[@dansv1]

They went back 6 times, landed 5 of those times.

[@lucassevey5989]

NASA's funding got cut

[@Palbizu]

Mainly that it costs a ton of money to go to the moon

[@baatar]

It’s amazing they were able to do this with 1969 tech, truly ahead of its time

[@Palbizu]

Not even ahead of their time. We pushed technology forward with what we had. We funded science and we did amazing things

[@truthbtruth8559]

And never returned since then - with all our advances in technology since then. 😑

[@jamesphilip6737]

And they had cars, washing machines, telephones too

[@JACKDAWFISH]

Lol

[@user-uo1qf5rj8i]

Because there is no more reason to do so​@@truthbtruth8559

[@NickosEstrada69]

How come we are so eager to go to Mars rather than go to the moon and maybe create a space station on the moon then a colony? We can’t even explore our own waters enough to find what’s down and around.

[@BoogieFinger]

That camera footage of the first steps are on the moon are amazing. Who was the cameraman ?

[@wimkuijpers1342]

Never heard of a fixed camera?

[@BoogieFinger]

@@wimkuijpers1342 Can you show me the photo of the fixed camera that is 50 feet away ?

[@dansv1]

@@BoogieFinger The fixed camera was un-fixed and set on a tripod by Armstrong after he was on the surface.

[@erac5855]

Armstrong coming down the ladder was filmed by a camera attached to a compartment door on the LM that he released with a d-ring and Aldrin pushed in a circuit breaker to start recording

[@ephemeralcreek]

...by a person uncapable of stepping apparently...but in all seriousness, it looked like a camera mounted to the spacecraft.

[@susankinsey2998]

Y'all know this is a movie set, right? Right?

[@AMDG_JMJ]

Why did they not play, "The Eagle has landed"?!

[@jeanherndon4536]

Space the final frontier is a destination humankind will be able to travel some day. Computer geeks should marvel at men who used drafting boards and slide rules & by today's standards, primitive computers to accomplish this mission. Today is 20 July 2024 ◇

[@memebro3236]

I never thought that it only took four day to go to the moon.

[@HoangNamLe-pw5DL7]

🎉🎉🎉

[@wimkuijpers1342]

Over more than 10 years, Project Apollo involved 400,000 people working at major contractors such as Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, IBM, Motorola and MIT University. Converted to today, the costs were 217 billion dollars. After Apollo 11 there were 5 more other landings.

[@rewtdawg9852]

Those numbers are from 2020, with the current inflation it would be around 341 Billion

[@wimkuijpers1342]

@@rewtdawg9852 Noted.

[@sambloom5375]

Hehe 😢nobody yet landed on the Moon except my Grandma🎉

[@sambloom5375]

$217,000.000.000.37 cent went to friends & family to boosters unemployment 🎉

[@tracyhankin4247]

I know that's right! 😂😂😂

[@mauriz8120]

is the US flag still standing ont he moon? can it be seen with a telescope?

[@wimkuijpers1342]

All 6 flags were made of nylon so I don't think they survived 55 years in full sunshine. No. Flags and the rest are too small to be seen through a telescope.

[@AM-rd9pu]

The lunar reconnaissance orbiter has taken pictures of all of the landing sites. In some, you can see the shadow of the flag. So at least some of the flags are still standing.

[@darrelltill8573]

Photos have been taken by lunar orbiters and suggest that the flag poles are still standing but the flags themselves have either disintegrated or discoloured and become completely white. Because there is no oxygen things don't decay exactly the same way they do on earth but the solar radiation would be enough to make them degrade. Google 'space weathering'.

[@LucindaFerreira-j8f]

@@wimkuijpers1342 it seems not even the rover

[@cjpv1972]

Nope ...this never happened.

[@jeanherndon4536]

I think it is wonderful that footage has been retained in such a way that we all can share a magnificent history of space exploration. IF the space force created back when Donald Trump was president, continues this quest for space travel; then, another generation of humans can experience vicariously what my generation did. Thank you google and youtube and samsung & Jack Kilby whose chips have made it all reality. Today is 23 July 2024.

[@M3reviewsDJD]

👀

[@tracyhankin4247]

Where? 👀👀

[@AzzaBazza06]

Crazy how people were walking on the moon in 1969

[@dansv1]

And 1971 and 1972, but not 1970.

[@AM-rd9pu]

@@dansv1I did a double take when I first read your comment. Never realized that Apollo 13 was the only Apollo mission launched in 1970.

[@dreameater8432]

Can someone tell me why no one's ever gone back to the moon?

[@Marvel_HymnSelf]

We lost the technology that got us there the first time and lost the blueprint to rebuild it... if you can believe that

[@BarryAdams777]

@@Marvel_HymnSelf, in this day and age, that is unbelievable.

[@Violet-uh9fj]

Because we’ve never been there. No country has, it’s an open secret between nations.

[@lindorini]

I want to know that too...its 2024, one would think...🤔

[@Palbizu]

@@Marvel_HymnSelfno we haven’t. Those blueprints are all publicly available online. We haven’t returned to the moon because NASA was massively defunded after the missions

[@davidedelman2984]

The best part is NASA LOST all of the “original Moon Landing” information and documents and actually recorded over the video as well. Definitely sounds like something you would do with the most important footage in history. 🙄😳

[@dansv1]

Do some fact checking on those claims.

[@AM-rd9pu]

No footage was actually lost. Some _backup_ tapes were recorded over. Please do some actual research before parroting claims that you heard.

[@ApolloKid1961]

I get so tired of these kinds of people.

[@SPZ909]

None of this is true for anyone wondering.

[@SatchDean]

I see one random person on the internet claiming footage was lost. I see another random person saying it wasn't lost. I can "do some research" online and find evidence to back up either of your claims.

[@abelinaportillo1783]

IMO..its Interesting, Images from 2024 aren’t that clear. Yet these are. Why waste time/$ on human/lunar studies in recent years if humans have already touched lunar surface. .?

[@Palbizu]

Images from 2024 from NASA are absurdly clear idk what you mean. Humans are able to explore areas with tons more efficiency than robots are. Going back to the moon opens up our ability to go further into the planets. It’s why humans returning us important

[@tracyhankin4247]

Back to the moon? Really? 😂😂😂😂

[@wimkuijpers1342]

@@tracyhankin4247 Google project Artemis.

[@mukulkulkarni5431]

@abelinaportillo1783 by that logic, why go back to home if you’ve already been home?

[@ServantMaximus]

Never happened.

[@erac5855]

🥱

[@ef4768]

True.

[@wimkuijpers1342]

It happend 6 times.

[@TessTickles1]

gives no proof: dips:

[@AM-rd9pu]

Prove it. Oh wait, this was a drive by.

[@marlawalker6893]

HAHAHA SERIOUSLY? You got that tiny aluminum rocket through the Allen Belt? HAHAHA

[@ApolloKid1961]

If you call the Saturn 5 a little rocket you're really crazy.

[@AM-rd9pu]

It’s hard to take your claim seriously when you can’t even get the name of the radiation belts right. You almost certainly just parroted a claim you heard someone else make.

[@Convexityofwater]

@@AM-rd9pu Care to provide evidence that he just parroted a claim he heard someone else make?

[@mackadamia8969]

So who recorded the first man putting the first step on the moon?

[@AM-rd9pu]

A camera mounted to the outside of the lander recorded Neil.

[@user-rg4mv6wf7m]

very funny

[@dennishardy4402]

Interesting there were supposed to be multiple manned landings on the moon in the 60s but they cant even get a manned ship to the space station and back in 2024. Maybe the conspiracy theorists are right.

[@user-uo1qf5rj8i]

We already went there 6 more times. There is no more reason to do it nowadays

[@wimkuijpers1342]

Converted to today, the costs were 341 billion dollars. Hasn't SpaceX managed to dock with the ISS a few times?

[@ef4768]

Its because it is not possible to land man on the moon yet.

[@wimkuijpers1342]

@@ef4768 Why wouldn't that be possible then? The 747 and Concorde were also designed at that time.

[@AM-rd9pu]

One problem in spaceflight doesn’t invalid everything that happened before it.

[@loll8796]

Amazing AI CGI. No human was ever at the moon

[@wimkuijpers1342]

CGI in 1969? And then claim this?

[@AM-rd9pu]

What AI CGI did they have in the 60s?

[@Somoneontheinternet]

😂😂

[@LyricsQuest]

The AI CGI on the Unix Mainframe Computers of 1969 must've been pretty advanced. More than a decade before MS-DOS, Apple macintosh or even Windows 3.1.

[@mega_blox44yt19]

yeah i cant believe they had great editing and cgi in the 60s

[@ahmedhodzic7135]

Landing in Hollywood basement.

[@ApolloKid1961]

6 times?

[@petersearls4443]

How do create a 1/6 gravity environment in a Hollywood basement?

[@joaofarinha551]

Found the flat earther!

[@petersearls4443]

@@joaofarinha551 already sold him the Brooklyn Bridge for scrap metal.

[@cjpv1972]

Exactly 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@xKageAkira]

How many still believe this?

[@AM-rd9pu]

Any rational person can see that the evidence makes it abundantly clear that the moon landings happened.

[@gives_bad_advice]

Practically all of the world's aerospace engineers and physicsts, to name a few.

[@ZomegJ]

​@@gives_bad_advice😂😂

[@xKageAkira]

@@gives_bad_advice lol only believed this because they don't want to maybe USA look bad

[@petersearls4443]

@@xKageAkirawow that is a brilliant argument. You must have done hundreds of hours of research to come up with that.

[@Teresa-mc-4u]

Neil Armstrong "One Small Step For Man - One Giant Leap For Mankind" .... Who Actually filmed this if he was the first ? Also who filmed the departure with the camera actually tracking the departure and movement ? Mystery , Fact , Fiction , or ... Just another Hollywood Blockbuster winning the entirety of the world viewing in awe ?

[@dansv1]

It was filmed by a 16 mm camera inside the lander pointed down from the window.

[@luther0013]

Neil Armstrong was filmed by a camera attached to the outside of the lunar lander. The take off of the assent module was filmed by a remote control camera that was set up by the astronauts before they left on some of the missions but on the missions with the rover the remote control camera on the rover was used to film the take off. Any other questions.

[@AM-rd9pu]

Neil was filmed by a camera mounted to the outside of the lander. The lunar ascent for Apollo 17 was recorded by remotely controlling the TV camera on the lunar roving vehicle. Ed Fendell at mission control was making inputs based on a timer to account for delay.

[@OwenEditz129]

How come the flag was waving?

[@ApolloKid1961]

That will stop when the astronauts are done placing it.

[@suriyasuriya7927]

​@@ApolloKid1961Why u convince all people that moon landing was orginal?

[@AM-rd9pu]

Because the astronauts moved or otherwise disturbed it.

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@suriyasuriya7927 To begin. Because there were SIX moon landings!

[@ohjajohh]

So they could go there in 1969, but not today in 2024?

[@ApolloKid1961]

Money.

[@ohjajohh]

@@ApolloKid1961 Yeah right It's a money issue... it's not like we're wasting billions on other worthless things

[@ApolloKid1961]

@@ohjajohh Converted to today's prices, the cost was $341 billion in taxpayer money. Technologically, it is certainly possible to do it. The blueprints still exist, but no government is going to spend that much money on something that has been done 6 times before.

[@ohjajohh]

@@ApolloKid1961 Can't convert prices like that when it comes to technology. A $50 Raspberry Pi computer is now more powerfull than a $50.000 computer back in the 1960's. Also the Fed prints as much money as they like, so I doubt it's a money issue...

[@AM-rd9pu]

⁠@@ohjajohhThey’re saying that the amount of money that Congress gave to NASA for the Apollo program equates to that number in today’s money. It’s a perfectly applicable conversion.

[@MCM2014]

One Question: That video of the “FIRST” man on the moon; WHO was filming it? It’s all theatre!!!

[@lucassevey5989]

He's called the first man on the moon because he was the first one out of the lander he wasn't the only one on the mission there where two other men

[@dansv1]

There were two cameras recording it. A 16 mm film camera in the lander pointing out the window; that’s what you see at 0:39 and 1:13. There was also a video camera mounted on the lower part of the lander that folded out to a position so it pointed at the ladder. That provided the live broadcast of the EVA that people watched on TV 0:47.

[@erac5855]

@MCM2014 a quick Google search would’ve given you plenty of answers to this. Maybe next time utilize that technology first?

[@truthbtruth8559]

Exactly. We Were Duped.

[@truthbtruth8559]

Film maker Stanley Kubrick filmed it. He admitted it many years later on video tape.

[@user-qy4ih9uk7p]

can't seem to make up their minds! Either the space suits are brightly lit in the shadows-----or dark in the shadows! which is it???

[@AM-rd9pu]

Light can reflect off the ground.

[@dianelawrence1087]

And all done in a studio. Go see the movie. I wonder if Walter Cronkite figured it out

[@LakshGhai-ex5jk]

U gotta be like 50 years old

[@PlainSight01]

@@LakshGhai-ex5jkyou believe in suction cup therapy 💀💀🤣🤣

[@wimkuijpers1342]

No film director is going to make the same film 6 times from the same set with bad camera equipment and only different actors.

[@erac5855]

@dianelawrence1087 you mean the new romcom that is fiction? Is that where you get your evidence? Yikes

[@AM-rd9pu]

“The movie”? You mean “Fly me to the moon”, a fictional alternate history portrayal?

[@ef4768]

LOL How can you upload this in 2024 ? dont you feel embarrassed? Hollywood would be.

[@ApolloKid1961]

No film director is going to make the same film 6 times from the same set with bad camera equipment and only different actors.

[@AM-rd9pu]

Don’t you feel embarrassed that you’re denying the objective fact that the moon landings happened? The evidence makes it abundantly obvious that the moon landings happened.

[@user-ky5dy5hl4d]

NASA really don't know how to put man on the Moon.

[@ApolloKid1961]

On what basis do you draw these conclusions?

[@petersearls4443]

@@ApolloKid1961the fact that his best friend who dropped out of school in the 10th grade told him so.

[@dr9gonkid20]

This is what you get for supporting trump all the time

[@kodywalkerunfiltered]

you belong in a mental health institution

[@meanphenom]

Look up Cinder Lake, Arizona...

[@dansv1]

“BEFORE THE FIRST ASTRONAUTS EVER made it to the moon, they had to have somewhere to practice, and thus the Cinder Lake Crater Field was constructed. Chosen for its porous volcanic gravel, the former volcano provided a more than suitable analogue for moon rock. However to accurately simulate the surface of the moon, scientists mapped a portion of the satellite’s craters and proceeded to create an exact replica of the pothole field in Cinder Lake. Using hundreds of pounds of dynamite, NASA scientists created an identical field of craters in a carefully ordered series of blasts. Once the simulated moon field was constructed, the astronauts were free to try out their lunar rovers and other equipment from the safety of Earth’s gravity.” - Atlas Obsura

[@dr9gonkid20]

You guys must be hurting real bad if you're posting stuff like this

[@joegarYT]

Notice the flag waving? No wind in space. 😊

[@dansv1]

Notice the flag swinging? No wind needed.

[@AM-rd9pu]

Do you really think a supposed issue _that_ glaring would go unnoticed by experts in the field for over half a century? Or do you think it might be more likely that there’s a perfectly rational explanation and you just have a misunderstanding?

[@nikkiseashores82]

Hes fiddling with the pole to get it in the hole.

[@ApuraLight]

And it was on the first attempt. Genius. It's just a shame they never went there again because it's so expensive. Understandable. And the images are always the same because the others all burned. A disgrace. I just don't understand who went there to get the camera operator who did the "Tilt up" at the time of the takeoff. Maybe he stayed there living. Quiet and without neighbors.

[@wimkuijpers1342]

Which recordings were burned? And it wasn't just the first attempt. The Mercury and Gemini program preceded it, right? And then Apollo 7 to 10? The camera that recorded the takeoff from the moon (Apollo 17) was attached to the buggy and was controlled remotely.

[@tracyhankin4247]

​@wimkuijpers1342 of course it was. I have the winning lotto numbers for next week too. Just whilst we are in the mood for for nonsense, I decided to add some of my own.😂

[@bmabs35]

They did go back to the Moon. Five times more in fact.

[@AM-rd9pu]

Clearly you couldn’t be bothered to do any research because all you did was parrot stock talking points. There were 5 more moon landings after Apollo 11. There are literally thousands of pictures from the missions and you can see them all online. No pictures were burned. The camera that recorded the Apollo 17 lunar ascent was remotely controlled by Ed Fendell at mission control.

[@LucindaFerreira-j8f]

@@wimkuijpers1342 btw, where is that buggy? Any telescope images from it?

[@BarryAdams777]

…Edited & cleaned up for damage control purposes, of course.

[@erac5855]

I mean not really. You can watch videos of full EVAs and read the entire transcripts from every Apollo mission if you choose. But I don’t think you will choose to…

[@AM-rd9pu]

All the original pictures and videos are publicly available. There’s nothing being hidden.

[@betsydonato6817]

Well at least the flag patch was flying right on the uniform shoulder, somehow it was turned around on the military uniform,,,but the real flag should have been as flat as a sheet of paper on a pole frame, or draping the pole dead in the wind, as the only thing stiriring dust on the moon is not wind, but astronauts. What's even more funny is,,,we need an astronaut type ergonomic uniform on earth where the danger of mass vs gravity is 6 times that of the moon.

[@LakshGhai-ex5jk]

Dawg what ur yapping abt

[@grimgreenrain]

Hi Betsy! I was interested in what you had to say. However, I noticed that I know the answers to some of your questions. A flag turned the opposite direction often means that the wearer is considered honorable and brave, and the stationary flag on the moon was invented/designed by Jack Kinzler, and is meant to look as though it is flying in outer space, but you'll notice that all real movement comes from the astronauts themselves. The flag uses one rod that stands it up and a second rod that extends from the top of the first rod to hold up the flag from the top, making it look like it would on earth! 👨‍🚀🇺🇲

[@dansv1]

If worn on one side, the flag should be worn in a manner that displays the union (stars) as moving in the wind- What this means is that when wearing the flag on the right shoulder of a uniform, right side of a vehicle or any other moving platform the stars should lead the flag. This causes the flag to often appear “backwards”. In reality the flag is being worn in the manner that if it was freestanding it would fly. It is important to note that is a guideline set forth by the US military, not by the US Code.

[@AM-rd9pu]

The flag had a metal rod extending from the pole to hold the flag outstretched.

[@LucindaFerreira-j8f]

@@grimgreenrain how about the diferent sizes of astronauts shadows?

[@brianquon-rv9xi]

Hollywood bs 😂

[@ApolloKid1961]

No self-respecting film director is going to make the same movie SIX times from the same set with black and white camera equipment and only different actors.

[@yeyeyeyyeeyyye]

Bruh show some evidence

[@brianquon-rv9xi]

Who took the pictures and videos? Why haven't we gone again? Common sense . Didn't even have microwave ovens 😂

[@AM-rd9pu]

@@brianquon-rv9xiThe answers to those questions are easily available. A camera mounted to the side of the lander recorded Neil’s first steps. Neil recorded Buzz’s first steps. And in Apollo 17, the lunar liftoff was recorded by mission control remotely controlling the camera on the lunar roving vehicle. We haven’t been back because of money. Congress decided they didn’t want to foot the bill for moon missions anymore so they slashed NASA’s budget going into 1973. The Apollo program was cancelled and NASA didn’t receive money to fund more crewed moon missions until the Artemis program began a few years ago.

[@brianquon-rv9xi]

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